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Comment · 2 years ago
sorrownding: neat
Comment · 3 years ago
Superconductor means low resistance. Low resistance means less loss due to heat on a wire. Room temperature superconductor also means more efficient magnets for motors, coils, ending up in cars, MRI machines, etc.
Comment · 4 years ago
I want the hardware to protect me perhaps with a key or handle or something. Talking to the hardware: Give me a block of memory that I can append to the end of. Another piece of code: Allow me to access that other block for read only. Each piece of software has some sort of identification. Then the hardware throws an interrupt if a piece of software uses some memory incorrectly.
Comment · 4 years ago
There are now leadless devices that communicate with each other using RF.
Comment · 4 years ago
You are thinking much too small, friend. Spin the earth faster and we can finally get rid of leap seconds.
Comment · 4 years ago
I actually fixed one of those games once. It was really easy since both tanks had duplicate hardware, so signals could be compared between both tanks.
Comment · 4 years ago
If you are talking about large sets of numbers, then the speed up will be far below 1%.
Comment · 5 years ago
I imagine you may know a lot about this, but what OS/machine were they using to develop it? PDP-11?, CPM? What editors did they use? Line editors? Which machines did they use to test on? Most drives and even RAM was unreliable back then and everything was small. I imagine there were plenty of obstacles back then. I remember using CPM where floppy disks had to be swapped between the editor and compiler, and your program may fit on another floppy disk.
Comment · 5 years ago
The magnet is usually used as a mitigator to turn off the device in case the device is doing something wrong like producing pulses too fast. There is typically RF communication that can communicate to the device and can often be used to turn the magnet detection off, which means that the device will not quit working when a magnet is detected. This was used in the past for electric trains or other large magnets such as in factories.
Comment · 5 years ago
The magnet is usually used as a mitigator to turn off the device in case the device is doing something wrong like producing pulses too fast. There is typically RF communication that can communicate to the device and can often be used to turn the magnet detection off, which means that the device will not quit working when a magnet is detected.
Comment · 5 years ago
I know that the open function on files is very slow. This makes opening many small files very slow.
Comment · 5 years ago
Typically it is not ok considering cradle to grave of all materials, labor, transportation, etc.
Comment · 5 years ago
Or a bit of the ego of the writer is getting in and becoming the story.
Comment · 5 years ago
To be honest if it wasn't so good, we wouldn't have evolved to consume so much of it.
Comment · 5 years ago
Allow people to vote and follow different bellwether classifications.